Sentences and rehearsals increase rated similarity: Support for assimilation-in-salience theory

Psychological Reports

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1253-1266

  King, Donald L ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RECALL; STUDENT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS;

EID: 0033146886     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.84.3.1253-1266     Document Type: Article

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